Sometimes, it's the Where not the What...

Sometimes, it's the Where not the What...

by John Weidner, MSDC Treasurer

If you’re a mineral collector, you have probably purchased mineral specimens because they were rare, because they were beautiful, or because of the locality they were from.  But have you ever bought a specimen because of where you bought it?

I bought this piece at a street fair in rural Drenthe, a province of The Netherlands north and west of Amsterdam, from a vendor who spoke no English. This is unusual in The Netherlands – most everyone there speaks English as well as I do.